Can countries agree to "end the world's plastic pollution crisis"?
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Delegates from 175 countries have been meeting this week in Busan, South Korea, in an attempt to negotiate a legally binding treaty to address global plastic pollution. The gathering marks the fifth and final phase of multiyear talks of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC-5), with a decision expected on a treaty when the summit ends on Sunday.
"We have a historic moment to end the world's plastic pollution crisis and protect our environment, our health, and our future," Inger Andersen, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program, told attendees at the start of the week's negotiations, calling it a "moment of truth" for the delegations, and the planet.
The talks have been marred by a wide gap in opinions between delegations from small, often developing nations, and more advanced economies — and some major global corporations whose presence is, in itself, controversial.
A record number of unaccompanied migrant minors have traveled through Latin America and the Caribbean this year, according to estimates from UNICEF, the United Nations children's agency.
Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who injected humanity into the rigid sanctity of Orthodox religious art.
Mexican soldiers and marines have seized over a ton of fentanyl pills in two raids in the north, with officials calling it the biggest catch of the synthetic opioid in the country's history.
A Palestinian health official said at least 21 people were killed Wednesday by an Israeli strike on a camp housing displaced people in Gaza. A spokesman for Gaza's civil defense agency said five children were killed in the strike.
A man suffered severe injuries early Tuesday after being attacked by a polar bear in Canada, according to police.
China announced on Tuesday a ban on the export of a number of minerals with military and technology applications to the U.S., one day after the Biden administration further curbed its own exports as part of its crackdown on China's semiconductor industry.
Manila, Philippines — Chinese coast guard vessels backed by navy ships fired powerful water cannons and blocked and sideswiped a Philippine patrol vessel on Wednesday in renewed aggression at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, Philippine officials said.
Israel unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people on Monday after the Lebanese militant group fired a volley of projectiles as a warning over what it said were Israeli truce violations.
Many of us have felt it, and now it's official: "brain rot" is the Oxford dictionaries' word of the year.
Three Indigenous Teduray people died and more than 30 others were hospitalized after they ate an endangered sea turtle stew in the Philippines, officials said.
The Syrian military and its ally Russia conducted deadly joint air raids Monday on areas that Islamist-led rebels seized control of over the weekend. The strikes were a response to a lightning offensive by the rebels that saw them wrest control of swathes of northwest Syria from government forces.